G. Gerotziafas in Proto: Many and good doctors in Greece-Structural problems in the NSS- With cross-party consensus the improvement (audio)
“We have a lot of doctors in Greece and we find ourselves having 100 dead every day, which means that no work was done at the base of the pyramid, in the primary care to monitor the patients, so they arrive seriously ill in the hospital and then die, plus the problems. . that the hospitals have “he pointed out speaking to First Program 91.6 and 105.8 and the show “Morning Routes to the First” with Maria Georgiou and Vassilis Adamopoulos, Professor of Hematology at the Sorbonne Medical School, head of the Department of Thrombosis at the Tenos Hospital in Paris (Covid-19 reference hospital), Grigoris Gerotzas.
Greece has good doctors and good medical staff, he noted, as well as good technological equipment that is located even in private centers, in almost every town. “Moreover, in Greece, there is not what we have in France, whole areas do not have a single doctor. Why the situation in Greece has gone badly is a matter of reading data, which makes it easier for parliamentary parties to sit down and look at it and decide what can be improved. For example, how to improve the vaccination program in Greece, taking for granted that we need vaccines in the future. “There are also scientific studies that say what can be done in the vaccination campaign, to sit down and make the parties consensus”, Mr. Gerotziafas underlined. He even noted that even if the pandemic officially ends, which is likely to happen, we will continue to have covid-19 epidemic waves, so we will have ICU patients who will displace others. “Let the parties sit down and see the costs, what they can cut, put them down. They can do it, because we are talking about medicine, science and whether he is the scientific advisor of Mr. Tsipras, or the advisor of Mr. Mitsotakis or Mr. Koutsoumbas, we know the same letters and we read the same numbers “.
At the same time, European countries are heading for relaxation, even in the universal lifting of coronavirus protection measures, with Denmark being the first member state to introduce only minimal restrictive measures for its unvaccinated citizens.
“In France, nightclubs will open in the coming days and there is talk of removing the mask indoors. The truth is that in everyday life we have less masks, but these are a result of the fact that people have been vaccinated at a much higher rate, “added Mr. Gerotziafas.
There are cases and there are patients, they note, explaining that the cases are indicative of the spread of the virus in the community and the patients who are treated are indicative of the situation in the health system, so that they are treated properly and their condition does not show. “This difference is determined by the vaccination rate. That is, we are in a situation in France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, the United Kingdom where the cases can be very high, but to the extent that there is a vaccination rate of 90% of the total population as it is Portugal, in 80% like France, we have a suspension in the prevention of serious illnesses, the serious illness that needs treatment. But if we are in areas without high vaccination coverage, then unfortunately the rise in cases is parallel to the rise in hospitalization with all the subsequent problems, intubation and deaths. In Greece the measures have been relaxed for a long time now. The way they are applied. the masks, the distances, even the closing of the shops is very relevant, it does not apply with the rigor we have here. “What was not strictly implemented in Greece or was not implemented, is the measure in force in France with which vaccination became mandatory, ie for any activity we must be vaccinated.”
The problem in Greece now, he repeated, is because we have so many dead, as our country is the first in Europe. “This is the tip of the iceberg. “We have other problems behind us, the people in the ICU who need to be cured, the non-covid and others,” he stressed.